Judith Todd

Judith Todd is the SALO representative in Zimbabwe. Briefly jailed and detained by Rhodesia’s Ian Smith regime in 1972, was then exiled for nearly eight years.  She returned to Zimbabwe in 1980 and became director of the Zimbabwe Project, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the welfare of war veterans.  In 2003 she was disenfranchised and stripped of her Zimbabwe citizenship by the Robert Mugabe regime. She is the author of Rhodesia: An Act of Treason, the story of white Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965, and The Right To Say No, about black Rhodesia’s rejection of an attempted settlement between the Rhodesian and British governments.  Both books were banned in Rhodesia, and republished in Zimbabwe. Her Through the darkness.  A Life in Zimbabwe was one of the Economist Books of the Year 2007 and received special commendation on 31 October 2008 from the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.